Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Hero, sentence 63
All the comfort they could get was his reply, “When defeat comes we will discuss the question.”
Who acts: officers, comfort, defeat, we · What happens: get, be, come, discuss · To what, where: comfort, reply, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Hero. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officers, comfort, defeat, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 comfort | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 comfort | det |
| 3 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reply | nsubj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 get | aux |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 comfort | acl:relcl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reply | cop |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 reply | nmod:poss |
| 9 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 comes | punct |
| 12 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 comes | advmod |
| 13 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 reply | parataxis |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 discuss | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 discuss | aux |
| 17 | discuss | discuss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 comes | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 question | det |
| 19 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 discuss | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reply | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | could | officers = officer | all comfort not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer comfort=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be speech: assert | past | all comfort | Han's reply | Han nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | defeat | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | discuss speech: other in a quote | future | we | the question | vn chit_chat-37.6-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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